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11 berries in Russian

ежевика — blackberry (Rubus) клубника — strawberry (Fragaria × ananassa) малина — raspberry (Rubus idaeus) черника — blueberry (Cyanococcus) клюква — cranberry (Oxycoccus) крыжовник — gooseberry (Ribes uva-crispa) шелковица — mulberry (Morus) бузина — elderberry (Sambucus) брусника — lingonberry (Vaccinium vitis-idaea) восковница — bayberry (Myrica) толокнянка — bearberry (Arctostaphylos)

#russian #vocabulary #berries #русский #словарь #ягоды

11 fish in Russian

акула — shark (Selachimorpha) форель (ж) — trout (Salmoninae) лосось (м) — salmon (Salmo) осётр — sturgeon (Acipenser) кефаль (ж) — mullet (Mugilidae) палтус — halibut (Hippoglossus) щука — pike (Esox lucius) камбала — plaice (Pleuronectes platessa) морской язык — sole (Solea solea) треска — cod (Coregonus autumnalis) байкальский омуль (м) — Baikal omul (Coregonus migratorius)

#russian #vocabulary #fish #русский #словарь #рыбы

11 birds in Russian

орёл — eagle (Aquila) голубь (м) — pigeon (Columba) сова — owl (Strigiformes) утка — duck (Anatidae) ястреб — hawk (Accipitrinae) жаворонок — lark (Alaudidae) стриж — swift (Apodidae) сорока — magpie (Pica pica) ворона — crow (Corvus) ворон — rave (Corvus corax) грач — rook (Corvus frugilegus)

#russian #vocabulary #birds #русский #словарь #птицы

11 trees in Russian

берёза — birch (Betula) дуб — oak (Quercus) сосна — pine (Pinus) бук — beech (Fagus) каштан — chestnut (Castanea) вяз, ильм — elm (Ulmus) тис — yew (Taxus) тополь (м) — poplar (Populus) клён — maple (Acer) яблоня — apple tree (Malus) ясень (м) — ash tree (Fraxinus)

#russian #vocabulary #trees #русский #словарь #деревья

Nahuatl reading practice

Nopiltzé, nocōzqué, noquetzalé, ōtiyōl, ōtitlācat, ōtimotlālticpacquīxtīco; in ītlālticpac in totēucyo ōmitzyōcox, ōmitzpīc ōmitztlācatilî in īpalnemōhuani in Dios. Auh mīxco mocpac ōtitlachixquê in timonānhuān, in timotàhuān, īhuān in māhuìhuān, in motlàhuān, in mohuānyōlquê ō mīxco ō mocpac tlachixquê ōchōcaquê mopampatzinco in ic ōtiyōl, in ic ōtitlōcat in tlālticpac.

My dear child, my jewel, my beautiful feather, you were conceived, you were born, you came upon the earth. It’s Our Lord, it’s God, our creator, who formed and created you and placed you on the earth. We considered you, we who are your mother and father; your aunts and uncles, your relatives also considered you, and they groaned and were touched when you were born and came to the world.

Source: p.10, Michel Launey (trans. Christopher Mackay), An Introduction to Classical Nahuatl (Cambridge University Press, 2011)

#foreign languages #nahuatl

Tio estas volapukaĵo al mi

Some auxlang banter:

Esperanto: Tio estas volapukaĵo al mi

Literal translation: This is Volapük to me

English equivalent: It’s Greek to me

What’s odd is that the Danes appear to agree with the Esperantists (I am aware those are not necessarily two mutually exclusive sets of people).

Danish: Det er det rene volapyk

Translation: That’s clear Volapük

There has to be a reason Esperanto is faring a bit better than Volapük...

#conlang #auxlang #ial #esperanto #volapük #danish

Time for a Georgian tongue-twister

ბაყაყი მყაყე წყალში ყიყინებს

baq’aq’i mq’aq’e c’q’alši q’iq’inebs

/bɑqʼɑqʼi mqʼɑqʼɛ tsʼqʼɑlʃi qʼiqʼinɛbs/

The frog is croaking in the stagnant water

Source: p.6, George Hewitt, Georgian: A Learner’s Grammar (Routledge, 2005)

#georgian #tongue-twister #ქართული

Reorganisation

Dear Tumblrists,

I’ve just reorganised the top-of-the-blog links and tried to minimise the number of extra pages on each blog. On Idiomatick, this involved turning a few translation pages into actual blog posts. My apologies if this has spammed your feed. I’ve dated these new items as being posted when the Word files on my computer were last saved.

― Stephen

#psa #reorganisation

La sinjoro, kiu falas

I found an amusing picture used to illustrate compound tenses in my Esperanto book:

La sinjoro estas falonta = The man is about to fall

La sinjoro estas falanta = The man is falling

La sinjoro estas falinta = The man has fallen

Source: p.118, John Cresswell and John Hartley, Teach Yourself Esperanto (The English Universities Press, 1959)

P.S. Apologies for the quality of the picture (my webcam is terrible).

#esperanto #teach yourself #sinjoro #fali

mlwotd

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It’s been a month since I started this “Multilingual Word of the Day” blog and so I have chosen to repost my personal favourite as my “Word of the Month for March”!

āhuacatlinan /aːˈwakat͡ɬ/

[noun] avocado

[noun] testicle

An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl

Click the link in the title to read the original post in full.

#mlwotd #wotm